Other book suggestions for winging it B4FIAR style when through?

[Mechelle in OR]

I know about the "letter of the week" and homeschoolshare, but I was wondering if people had found some good books to try and row on their own for this age group?
Seems people run out of B4FIAR books and have to wing it or try re-rowing the same books.


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Would "Bunny Cakes" by Rosemary Wells work?

Or other ideas?

Thanks!

[AndreaD]

A few of the units on homeschool share are ones I wrote to row with my middle ds before he was ready for FIAR. I think if you can find a picture book that you don't mind reading 5 days in a row, and it's about something your kids are interested in, you'll have a hit. :D I think quite a few Leo Lionni or Eric Carle books would make great books to row.

[Rosanna]

Agree with the Leo Lionni and Eric Carle, also using go-along books from the authors you've already read, like Jesse, Bear, books from Ezra Jack Keats (the Snowy Day),
and the animal books like The Little Lamb, The Little Duck, etc. Good luck!

[KristenS]

I know Ted's really into Max and Ruby here. We haven't 'rowed' them but he learned tons of sight words just by re-reading them all. And she does have some nice printables somewhere, for Bunny Money and a couple others.

Re-rowing is also fun, as kids grow SO much at the early ages. We did them two or three times through with Ted, and got something different out of it every time. Plus the archives have extra ideas for each book.

And we do a lot of 'go-along' titles too, like someone mentioned above. Others by the same author or in the same series, things like that.

[Jocelyne]

in addition to b4 and homeschoolshare i also used the book picture book activities by trish kuffner. there is some overlap which might help to rerow some of the same books from both locations. but also has a lot of other great books to use as well.

otherwise i would choose a book that my son was very interested in. maybe books on trains or dinosaurs or pirates or other animals etc. and then create a week on that theme at a preschool level. he loved those weeks the most because they were his favorite books!

[Melissa3]

I don't know if I can remember them all but two that stand out for me that we did were "My Many Colored Days"; my middle daughter was quite quiet and wasn't able to express her words with emotions very well so this was great. "Just Plain Fancy" was quite a favorite here with all three kids too.

[Mechelle in OR]

in addition to b4 and homeschoolshare i also used the book picture book activities by trish kuffner.

I have looked into the book "Picture Book Activities" before but was intimidated by the price.
Guess it is worth the jump!

[Mechelle in OR]

I know Ted's really into Max and Ruby here. We haven't 'rowed' them but he learned tons of sight words just by re-reading them all. And she does have some nice printables somewhere, for Bunny Money and a couple others.

Do you mean Rosemary Wells?

I know that Jan Brett has some really cute printables for free, but had no idea about Rosemary Wells.

[Waverley]

We "B4" books around here like you do. Here's how I do it. First find a good book (see my list below). Then I came up with a list of categories to use in developing activities from the book (science, letters, art, math, geography, etc). I actually prepare a sheet for each book with the categories listed. Then as I read the book, I jot down activities/things to discuss from the book in the categories I want to cover.

Some books we have used are:

The Bear Snores On and its companion books by Karma Wilson

Rumpelstilskin by Paul O. Zelinsky

Farfallina and Marcel by Holly Keller - this is a beautiful story about a caterpillar and a gosling who develop a friendship. The illustrations are beautiful as are the lessons about friendship

Almost any books by the Audrey and Don Wood. Our favorites are The Napping House and Heggety Peg.

Good luck to you.